A lottery winner wants to give you money

A forum for posting "You have one the lottery" letters, and for asking whether the e-mail that your received is real (it isn't). Real lotteries do NOT advise winners by e-mail, and they do NOT require the payment of any fees up-front.
Arthur Rubin
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A lottery winner wants to give you money

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I'm not sure what the scam is, exactly....; it was sent to my phone as an attachment to a text message, and I can't figure out how to forward it to my E-mail.

The meat seems to be a recent Canadian lottery winner of $70,000,000 (appears to be real winners, but probably not their real E-mail address), wants to donate money to charity, and is willing to delegate some of the effort to you. You need to send some personal information (but, actually, not much more than is available about me on the Internet, as my address and E-mail are in professional society directories) in order to take the next step. Not yet asking for bank account information, yet.
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Re: A lottery winner wants to give you money

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That will come, before long, for anyone who answers.
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Re: A lottery winner wants to give you money

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Let me correct my message above. I think I forwarded it correctly to my E-mail, but it was correctly regarded as spam or phishing, in one of the E-mail folders. I'll see if I can post the meat, later.
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